Deep Discovery Conversations
The Practice of Co-creative Intelligence, Community Wisdom and Making a New Culture
Rose Diamond and Woods Elliott
e-book 70 pages
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There is a transpersonal, transformational potential which lies latent in us. As we access more consciousness in ourselves, we likewise bring this new capability to our relationships. We need to explore this new interpersonal frontier, learn how to bring our expanded awareness into our dialogues and deeper conversations, and practice ways to stimulate and be stimulated into more lucid awareness and deep sharing. – Woods Elliott, Dazzlephrenia
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Deep Discovery Conversations provide a forum for inquiry, deep listening, authentic self-expression and inspired creative exploration. They are the foundation of our work at Tribe in Transition and can be practised by two people or many people.
As a whole person/whole system approach to relationship, group, organisational and community empowerment, Deep Discovery Conversations offer opportunities to engage with collaborative change processes in order to:
- Express the wisdom within and between us and bring into being our highest visions of what is possible in our individual lives, our relationships, families, businesses, communities, country and global family.
- Discover a common language and meanings for our experience of living on the Planet at this time and move beyond our current beliefs and assumptions about life.
- Encourage and support authentic forms of co-creative leadership and Earth stewardship in all contexts and at all levels of responsibility.
- Unlock our collective transformational capabilities and help midwife the birth a new culture of co-operation and collaboration on Earth.
This new culture is emerging all over the planet and in many different contexts; our ability to learn together, to share our gifts and to consciously co-create is essential for the optimum unfolding of humanity’s next stage of evolution. A new culture grows and spreads cell by cell. We are each a cell in the body of humanity, Earth and cosmos, and when we meet in aligned, intentional groups for the good of the whole, we can become a bigger, healthier, stronger, more influential organism which inspires, uplifts, challenges and awakens the consciousness and culture in which we live.
Woods Elliott invented the practice back in the 1990’s, and we later developed it together to explore whatever was emerging at the growing edge of our conscious awareness – including insights into the nature of consciousness itself, inner conflicts blocking our creative process, our responses to global events or new cultural ideas, and creative possibilities in our transformational work of co-creating a whole new world.
Deep Discovery Conversations are now the vehicle of choice in the work of Tribe in Transition. They initiate an experimental process that leads towards the art and science of collective intelligence, in which together we can make the crucial shift from “me” to “we”; from the self-interest, competitiveness, dominance and duality of the old paradigm culture; to the revolutionary realization that we are each cells in a living organism. The practice of Deep Discovery can lead to the experiential knowing that we are all parts of one mind, one heart, one consciousness, one interdependent humanity and biosphere, with creative intelligence available in every moment to emerge and act through us.
‘We’ are facing many questions regarding ‘our’ future together. We need to engage in dialogue about this, in ways that maintain mutual regard for the differences between us yet reach that place where we can move forward – even if everyone does not agree with everything… In order to engage in the type of dialogue required we need to understand what we each ‘mean’ in relation to what we regard as ‘our problems’ and not simply seek for ‘solutions’. This points to a form of meeting different from discussion and debate and invites a deep enquiry into our individual meanings. Through finding a language for our meanings, and sharing them, we start to question how we have constructed our reality and then move beyond our current limited perspectives and discourses to find new solutions at a higher, more inclusive level.
Bryce Taylor, Towards Active Citizenship and Transformational Learning